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Mosquito Control:
Learn how to prevent and control
mosquitoes, before they control you!
Try to eliminate the breeding grounds
Ponds: If you have a pond in your garden, either add BTI to the pond to stamp out the breeding or add an adequately sized fountain feature to the pond to ensure the water is not left standing still. Or do a bit of both.
Bird baths: Keep bird baths clean on a regular basis during mosquito season .
Gutters: If you home or garage is in a shaded area of your land, keeping debris out of the gutters is a very cheap form of mosquito control.
Standing Water: Keep spare tires (and other items that can collect water) stored in sheltered areas of your land to cut out the standing water areas that mosquitos love so much. After a mid-summer rainfall mosquitos flourish, if  your yard has large undulating areas that just love to hold standing areas of water, treat them with BTI
to stop the mosquitos hatching. You can even pre-treat areas known to flood by
staking down a briquette every 100 square feet.
Grass: Keep your lawn mowed and bushes trimmed throughout the mosquito season. This eliminates a welcome mosquito roosting place and makes your yard a nicer place for you to spend time once you have reclaimed it.
Car ports: Car ports are regular haunts for roosting mosquitos. A couple of easy options here. Place an insectivoro or GAL-35 bug zapper machine in there to attract and kill them. Or mix up DemonWP to double strength and spray in there. Mosquitoes hate DemonWP.
Indoor
search and destroy:
Window and door screens are vital to homes in mosquito infested parts of the country but they never manage to stop mosquitoes gaining entry to your home. A well placed  insectivoro or glue trap will prove to be a huge attractant during those dark hours when mosquitoes love to
attack us inside our own homes. Just remember to replace the bulbs at the start of every "mosquito"
season as they lose their attraction as they get old.
Outdoor Seek and destroy
Cutting down the breeding grounds is a large part of mosquito control
but it is not the be all and end all. It cuts down the mosquito population growth but you have no control over mosquitoes breeding in areas surrounding your property and as close to perfect attacks on the breeding grounds still leaves "survivors".
Kill them: Use a machine such as the Flowtron Mosquito PowerTrap, the
Coleman Mosquito Deleto or the new Mosquito Terminator to attract and kill mosquitoes within your yard. Deter them: Place devices such as the Flowtron MosquitoGuard or the Coleman Mosquito Deleto Inhibitor or repellants such as Gnat 
Scat or Mosquito
Barrier around areas of your yard where you want humans to go but mosquitoes to avoid. Machines are great at killing mosquitoes once the mosquitoes get to the machines, but utilizing deterrents / repellants to stop the restrict mosquitoes from being attracted to pets and humans instead of the mosquito killing machines is a bit part of a full mosquito control solution. Bug sprays for animals and humans also provide a nice
barrier against mosquitoes.
To Stop and Restrict Mosquitoes
Roof lines: Most mosquito breeds are attracted to light which is why you see them flocking to your kitchen window and porch light. Mix up DemonWP to double strength and spray around your roof line to drastically reduce the magnetic effect it has on roosting mosquitoes. Falling Leaves: Using the Flowtron Electric Leafeater won't give mosquitoes or other biting insects a chance to hide or breed in yard or garden waste. Plus it reduces 11 bags of leaves into one leaving you with nutrient rich mulch and a nice and tidy yard.
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